For one thing, patches are ineffective against a bandwidth consumption attack. For another, I'm told a lot of these attacks target Internet-exposed devices other than PCs, such as modem-routers and older smartphones. An ISP subscriber might not have authority to make and apply updates to the modem-router that the subscriber is leasing from the ISP, and the ISP might have neglected to do so. Or an update might not exist at all.
what happens when the attacker takes advantage of a vulnerability that is introduced by an update?
Is this nearly as common as an update removing a vulnerability?
And how is that different than simply #including a crypto library, which has the added bonus that you can pick any number of crypto libraries.
I can see three ways to proceed:
A built-in crypto library
This runs at full speed and is available by default to the shared hosting customer.
An add-on crypto library compiled to native code and distributed as a PHP extension
This runs at full speed but requires the shared hosting customer to convince the hosting provider to install it.
An add-on crypto library written in pure PHP
This is available by default to the shared hosting customer but can run unacceptably slowly due to interpreter overhead.
If I made my livelihood on selling sheet music for my own songs, a handful of incorrect takedown notices that bumped me off Google would be devastating to my business
Likewise for a handful of incorrect notices of claimed infringement sent to your ISP. You can sue the bastards for defamation of title unless the claim is that your own song is substantially similar to one of their own.
Start now by using the same Free and Open Source Software on Windows as you will be using under Linux (to the extent that it is available on Windows).
And often it isn't.
Case in point: What free paint program for Windows or X11/Linux has a feature comparable to "adjustment layers" in Photoshop? An adjustment layer is a copy of the layers below it with some filter automatically run on it, which updates automatically whenever a layer below it changes. I couldn't find any way to make an adjustment layer in GIMP 2.8.16, which ships with Xubuntu 16.04 LTS.
It appears that for some, there is no "correctly". I've read stories of Windows 10 refusing to accept "active hours" that cross midnight local time or that span more than twelve hours, such as the sixteen hours from morning to bedtime when a home PC might be used by at least one member of the household.
Rebooting a PC won't lose a damn thing, unless you're too ignorant to save your work. Ever heard of a hard drive?
Ever heard of regulations banning its use?
Sometimes people call an insurance agency to inquire about insurance, but they don't have all their necessary paperwork at the moment. So the agent keeps the incomplete information in an open Windows Notepad document. The agent is prohibited from saving this document, or from using an editor that automatically saves documents (such as Don Ho's Notepad++), because writing personally identifiable information (PII or "dox") to nonvolatile storage invokes regulatory compliance requirements that the agency is ill equipped to handle. Nor can the agent discard the information because prospective clients expect the agent to be able to pick up where he left off on a later day. Hence the use of an open, unsaved Notepad document to circumvent the regulation.
Of course, citizens have the right to chose to run Linux or FreeBSD as well.
On what hardware? Do citizens have the right to affordable hardware that runs an operating system that respects users' privacy? If citizens are faced with a choice between 300 EUR for a PC whose operating system does not respect users' privacy and 3,000 EUR for a comparable PC whose does, is this a desirable outcome for public policy?
citizens have a right to vote in democracies, and corporations don't.
That depends on regulation of political speech, as citizens who lack the time to do extensive research into all candidates for a particular office are vulnerable to being influenced by other citizens' speech through the mass media.
Here in the United States, the First Amendment recognizes citizens' right to speak for or against a particular candidate for office. And citizens have a right to form corporations for the purpose of furthering such speech; these are called IEOPACs (independent expenditures only political action committees) or "super PACs". How is political speech regulated in the countries of the European Union?
Which "different OS" (not Windows, iOS, or Android) is compatible with affordable smartphones made for the United States cellular market? And which "different OS" is compatible with affordable tablet computers and compact (smaller than 12") laptops?
If your computer is connected to the Internet, and you choose not to update, and a computer intruder takes advantage of this choice to surreptitiously install a botnet worker on your computer, how shall users of computers other than yours be protected from attacks originating from your computer? Automatic updates provide the counterpart to herd immunity.
I couldn't find a public "check my phone" link, or I'd've tried it.
But two of the "practices" listed in Netflix's blog post appear to conflict. One is "Up-to-date OS/software", an the other is "Not jailbroken/rooted". What does it say when the latest official system software image for a particular device is no longer supported? Does it recommend that the user trade off the "not rooted" practice to obtain "up-to-date OS" by flashing the LineageOS distribution of Android?
The last time Slashdot tried anything Unicode-related, vandals used control characters in comment subjects to mess with the layout and spoof moderation scores. The administrators had to put in a strict code point whitelist to prevent these code points from appearing in comments posted thenceforth.
I have a dial-up modem at home that only connects at 26.4k since there a universal SLIC between me and the CO
I know Seattle has had serious problems with home Internet speeds in the past due to some "director's rule" about rights of way that was unfriendly to tenants and neighbors of absentee landlords and neighbors of vacant lots. But I thought the rule was changed at the end of 2014, opening the door for CenturyLink to deploy gigabit fiber. Did it not reach your home?
But congress isn't going to decide on whether any web site is in violation or not.
True; Congress lets the courts sort that out.
As for whether a site is tied closely enough to infringement to deserve demotion, the featured article doesn't give the complete algorithm, but it does take into account notices of claimed infringement: "the tech giants have committed to demote websites that have repeatedly been served with copyright infringement notices." I assume these are the same notices of claimed infringement that Google forwards to Lumen Database, particularly those pursuant to 17 USC 512.
What, precisely, do they think is going to replace clicks?
Video impressions and impressions in an "infinitely" scrolling timeline. From the featured article:
Marketers are starting to attribute marketing success towards content exposure that drives you to click something, instead of the click itself. Two key formats increase content exposure: video and passive scrolling.
I guess to the hipsters, the Internet starts with Google.
Marketers once again want to get a brand name into the public's collective head to drive search traffic:
"a lot of work is done to get you to type something into a search bar to begin with," AdRoll President Adam Berke tells Axios.
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People need to quit building full programs in a lightweight scripting language, and go back to native fat applications.
And watch you become unable to use "native fat applications" made for an operating system other than the one your device runs.
I don't allow outside access to my file server at home. From my file server I can make whatever changes needed to the website
If you get an idea for an update while away from home, particularly for an extended period, what do you do with that idea?
Are those other people unpatched too?
For one thing, patches are ineffective against a bandwidth consumption attack. For another, I'm told a lot of these attacks target Internet-exposed devices other than PCs, such as modem-routers and older smartphones. An ISP subscriber might not have authority to make and apply updates to the modem-router that the subscriber is leasing from the ISP, and the ISP might have neglected to do so. Or an update might not exist at all.
what happens when the attacker takes advantage of a vulnerability that is introduced by an update?
Is this nearly as common as an update removing a vulnerability?
I'm using Pelican (Python) to convert my websites into static websites. With nothing to hack, script kiddies go away.
How do you edit your Pelican-powered website while away from your home PC? Skiddies can hack through that.
And how is that different than simply #including a crypto library, which has the added bonus that you can pick any number of crypto libraries.
I can see three ways to proceed:
A built-in crypto library This runs at full speed and is available by default to the shared hosting customer. An add-on crypto library compiled to native code and distributed as a PHP extension This runs at full speed but requires the shared hosting customer to convince the hosting provider to install it. An add-on crypto library written in pure PHP This is available by default to the shared hosting customer but can run unacceptably slowly due to interpreter overhead.Is there also a "less than and of the same type" operator? Or is calling strcmp() the best practice for this?
only like 6bn people in the world use languages that require some unicode character or another for something
Slashdot, on the other hand, is intended for use by those people who read and write English.
If I made my livelihood on selling sheet music for my own songs, a handful of incorrect takedown notices that bumped me off Google would be devastating to my business
Likewise for a handful of incorrect notices of claimed infringement sent to your ISP. You can sue the bastards for defamation of title unless the claim is that your own song is substantially similar to one of their own.
I believe that would be because your phone is not enrolled in an MDM manager.
That'd be fine if there were a "Send me to Google Play Store to temporarily enroll my phone in Netflix's MDM for the duration of the test" button.
Start now by using the same Free and Open Source Software on Windows as you will be using under Linux (to the extent that it is available on Windows).
And often it isn't.
Case in point: What free paint program for Windows or X11/Linux has a feature comparable to "adjustment layers" in Photoshop? An adjustment layer is a copy of the layers below it with some filter automatically run on it, which updates automatically whenever a layer below it changes. I couldn't find any way to make an adjustment layer in GIMP 2.8.16, which ships with Xubuntu 16.04 LTS.
So you don't set your reboot settings correctly
It appears that for some, there is no "correctly". I've read stories of Windows 10 refusing to accept "active hours" that cross midnight local time or that span more than twelve hours, such as the sixteen hours from morning to bedtime when a home PC might be used by at least one member of the household.
Dell has some limited options, but they are nice systems -- the xps 13 and the precision line are available with linux.
And there's a few dedicated linux laptop guys out there; system76, for example.
Anything smaller than 12 inches that's warranted to run GNU/Linux? Last time I checked System76, their smallest was 14 inches.
Once you've accepted that you have to order it in, its easy to buy linux.
If you "order it in", and you find that the laptop's screen or keyboard doesn't agree with you, what are your options?
Rebooting a PC won't lose a damn thing, unless you're too ignorant to save your work. Ever heard of a hard drive?
Ever heard of regulations banning its use?
Sometimes people call an insurance agency to inquire about insurance, but they don't have all their necessary paperwork at the moment. So the agent keeps the incomplete information in an open Windows Notepad document. The agent is prohibited from saving this document, or from using an editor that automatically saves documents (such as Don Ho's Notepad++), because writing personally identifiable information (PII or "dox") to nonvolatile storage invokes regulatory compliance requirements that the agency is ill equipped to handle. Nor can the agent discard the information because prospective clients expect the agent to be able to pick up where he left off on a later day. Hence the use of an open, unsaved Notepad document to circumvent the regulation.
Source: unixisc
OP, please name the Win-only apps.
I made a list of missing apps back in 2010. Which have counterparts nowadays?
Of course, citizens have the right to chose to run Linux or FreeBSD as well.
On what hardware? Do citizens have the right to affordable hardware that runs an operating system that respects users' privacy? If citizens are faced with a choice between 300 EUR for a PC whose operating system does not respect users' privacy and 3,000 EUR for a comparable PC whose does, is this a desirable outcome for public policy?
citizens have a right to vote in democracies, and corporations don't.
That depends on regulation of political speech, as citizens who lack the time to do extensive research into all candidates for a particular office are vulnerable to being influenced by other citizens' speech through the mass media.
Here in the United States, the First Amendment recognizes citizens' right to speak for or against a particular candidate for office. And citizens have a right to form corporations for the purpose of furthering such speech; these are called IEOPACs (independent expenditures only political action committees) or "super PACs". How is political speech regulated in the countries of the European Union?
Which "different OS" (not Windows, iOS, or Android) is compatible with affordable smartphones made for the United States cellular market? And which "different OS" is compatible with affordable tablet computers and compact (smaller than 12") laptops?
If and when you choose to update
If your computer is connected to the Internet, and you choose not to update, and a computer intruder takes advantage of this choice to surreptitiously install a botnet worker on your computer, how shall users of computers other than yours be protected from attacks originating from your computer? Automatic updates provide the counterpart to herd immunity.
I couldn't find a public "check my phone" link, or I'd've tried it.
But two of the "practices" listed in Netflix's blog post appear to conflict. One is "Up-to-date OS/software", an the other is "Not jailbroken/rooted". What does it say when the latest official system software image for a particular device is no longer supported? Does it recommend that the user trade off the "not rooted" practice to obtain "up-to-date OS" by flashing the LineageOS distribution of Android?
The administrators had to put in a strict code point whitelist
The unwanted character black list
It's a whitelist, not a blacklist.
Just let all the "good" characters through
Define "all the 'good' characters".
The last time Slashdot tried anything Unicode-related, vandals used control characters in comment subjects to mess with the layout and spoof moderation scores. The administrators had to put in a strict code point whitelist to prevent these code points from appearing in comments posted thenceforth.
What happens if someone turns on your developer mode Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, then presses Enter as prompted?
I have a dial-up modem at home that only connects at 26.4k since there a universal SLIC between me and the CO
I know Seattle has had serious problems with home Internet speeds in the past due to some "director's rule" about rights of way that was unfriendly to tenants and neighbors of absentee landlords and neighbors of vacant lots. But I thought the rule was changed at the end of 2014, opening the door for CenturyLink to deploy gigabit fiber. Did it not reach your home?
left up to the judicial branch.
But congress isn't going to decide on whether any web site is in violation or not.
True; Congress lets the courts sort that out.
As for whether a site is tied closely enough to infringement to deserve demotion, the featured article doesn't give the complete algorithm, but it does take into account notices of claimed infringement: "the tech giants have committed to demote websites that have repeatedly been served with copyright infringement notices." I assume these are the same notices of claimed infringement that Google forwards to Lumen Database, particularly those pursuant to 17 USC 512.
What, precisely, do they think is going to replace clicks?
Video impressions and impressions in an "infinitely" scrolling timeline. From the featured article:
I guess to the hipsters, the Internet starts with Google.
Marketers once again want to get a brand name into the public's collective head to drive search traffic: